Principal Software Engineer

About The LEGO Group

Based on the iconic LEGO® BRICK, the lego group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials.

Children are our role models and the importance of play has been at the heart of our business ever since 1932 when the company was founded. Their curiosity, creativity, and imagination inspire everything we do.

Position

You will be influencing and solving problems to help product teams and engineering leadership to craft a connected, seamless, personalised, and automated marketing ecosystem through an interconnected set products, services and platforms.

We are looking for a real evangelist who will be designing and Building an API economy for our products and external users, in an agile way that ensures loose coupling but with tight alignment.

Principal engineers at the LEGO Group are deeply connected across our entire technology ecosystem and role models to our growing engineering organsiaiton. Being part of this small community provides the ability to have a high degree of influence over our technology choices and overall architecture while also maintain an active role in building some of the solutions. It’s a broad role with a varied set of responsibilities and accountabilities.

Other tasks you could be doing are, but are not limited to:

• Helping product teams to retire legacy technology solutions and ensuring we unpick the technology tangle that is left behind.
• Formulating the technical roadmap across product teams and helping to secure consistent technology solution design and component or service re-use.
• Providing technical leadership through advocacy and coaching across product domains to ensure delivery of exceptional technical solutions.
• Building prototypes and creating examples by being at the front of proof of concepts and innovations, able to influence form a position of knowledge and experience as a software engineer.
• Contributing multi-functionally, pairing with engineers at all levels to support their learning to co-develop phenomenal outcomes.
• Active contributor and participant to the cluster leadership team and accountability for indirect leadership of the organisaiton with peers.
   

Play your part in our team succeeding

This cluster of products is responsible for the LEGO Groups marketing ecosystem – from our loyalty platform through to the foundations that enable a consistent, transparent and deeply consented profile of our users that enables a deeper personalised connection with each person.
The product teams also span our internal tools that enable effective marketing planning and insights across our channels and the management and activation of our contact and engagement centers to provide exceptional engagement levels.
Our current tech stack abstract: Among a broad field of technology, we primarily rely on the following - JavaScript (React / Node.js), GraphQL, Serverless, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Kinesis etc). We also leverage a number of MACH (Microservices, API, Cloud First, Headless) SaaS platforms as well as services from the likes of Salesforce and Adobe.

Your qualification

We want a colleague who excels in communication and coding and simply loves exciting products and engages our peers and partners with the right approach.

• Empowering and mentoring is important to you and you love teaching your skills and approach to others.
• When you speak, people listen and trust your expert opinion. People look up to you and seek to become as skilled as you are. You inspire people to follow you, not by dictating or controlling but thanks to your skill in your craft and your positions as an internal (and maybe external) leader with vision in your field.
• You have a strategic approach and know how to stay on strategy. You are skilled in change management, open to innovative approaches, patient with people and you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

You’re an excellent problem solver who is not fixed on technology but looks at how to craft the best solution. You love a technical challenge and filling in the dots to ensure that all requirements are understood and then delivered (without perfecting the plan before building it!).
We must admit that it would not hurt to also be confident within Salesforce marketing and service cloud products, customer data platforms, advertising technology and web application engineering, but this is not a must.

Additional details

Please keep in mind, that due to the holidays, we will not be conducting interviews in July. Expect a longer lead time when applying.